Read the excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth. That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? Which rhetorical techniques does the speaker use in this excerpt? Select three options. ethos shift pathos parallelism understatement
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Here a poor old man is expressing his grief,he says that because he is not a
women,all his life's sufferings are ignored.He says that even men have
emotion,they also get hurt.Men may present themselves as a stronger gender
but even they have their share of struggle.
The old man says that his body is hurting with pain because of all the
hardwork he did till now.His clothes get dirty when he works in a field but he
cannot complain because he is a man.
The old man says that he had thirteen children but because of poverty he had
to sell all of them as slaves,at that time he cried.When his mother died that
tim also he cried but nobody expressed their concern.Its only god who listens to him and he never had any company to share his grief.
Here, a man who is suffered a lot throughout his life is expressing his grief in sarcastic manner.
He want to say that, everybody supports women in their sufferings considering them weaker, but when a man suffers, nobody cares.
He also needs love and care and he also does the sacrifices, but nobody bother about this.
Only the god takes care of a man.